Book Report: Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
copyright: 1999 by Bedford/St. Martins, Boston
PR4479.A2.F793 1999
Rate: 3
Technically, The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner is not a book, it's a story-poem about a mariner telling someone the story of his last sea voyage. Coleridge was a Romantic poet and I read the 1798 version so the language was not only poetic, but somewhat antiquated. As a poem it is masterfully written but it seemed to me that the poem swallowed the story. I'm guessing that I was reading the poem, and one does not simply read a poem like this. You need to take time with it - it's a slow dance. There are elements of the story that might make an interesting background for a character, or an interesting plotline.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
copyright: 1999 by Bedford/St. Martins, Boston
PR4479.A2.F793 1999
Rate: 3
Technically, The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner is not a book, it's a story-poem about a mariner telling someone the story of his last sea voyage. Coleridge was a Romantic poet and I read the 1798 version so the language was not only poetic, but somewhat antiquated. As a poem it is masterfully written but it seemed to me that the poem swallowed the story. I'm guessing that I was reading the poem, and one does not simply read a poem like this. You need to take time with it - it's a slow dance. There are elements of the story that might make an interesting background for a character, or an interesting plotline.
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